Christmas Celebrations

Our Hutson Christmas celebration was at Aunt Wanda's new house, finally!!  It was sure pretty.  The kids had a great time playing together and putting on Christmas shows with Ira's karaoke machine.  Savannah did a beautiful rendition of Silent Night,  Evangeline did a ballet solo and Ira was the stage manager.  Afterwards they signed autographs, or graphs, as Evangeline called them. 



That night we had our annual sleepover at Papa and Karen's along with the Hwangs.  Getting those three darlin's to sleep in their bedroom was, for the second year in a row, a nightmare.  And for the second year in a row I had to sleep a portion of the night on a trundle bed with three little munchkins snoozing in their bunk bed.  (That is until I got my hair stepped on when one of those little munchkins had to use the restroom.) Later in the night my little munchkin could not sleep without finding an adequate bumpy spot.  I found her an acceptable one in the office and that's where she slept the rest of the night. 

SO, after a night like that she was less than perky when she woke up (that goes for Mommy and Daddy too).  Daddy did enjoy snuggles though, which are very few and far between these days. 

We all enjoyed watching the girls tear into their mountain of presents.  Evangeline's favorite was a little thing called a Moo Popper.  It's a cow that shoots a ball out of his mouth.  She played with it all day. 

She also got a camera which was has been lots of fun. 

Of course, we had a wonderful time with the Hutson's.

 

Back at home.....

Now that Uncle Zachary and Aunt Candice live out at the farm we tried to think of some neat farmy kind of gifts for them.  We decided on a few bird feeders.  Evangeline worked so hard on one that she painted for them. 

Yep, it's definitely my style to be just getting done with the Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve.  Christmas is a not a holiday for procrastinators. 

We spend Christmas Eve with Peggy and Grandpa Roy.

The Wilson's come over each year before we go to church.  Peggy's house gets smaller as more and more kids are added to the bunch. 

 There was more food, more fun, more gifts, more love.  We attended the Christmas service geared for families which is held at an earlier time.  Pastor Richard gave the kids several ornaments to hang on the tree to remind them of various parts of the Christmas story. 

 

Pastor Richard was talking about Christmas traditions at church that night and how much they mean to us through the years.  I feel so blessed to have married into such a lovely family.  The traditions I have come to share with them over the past ten years are priceless to me.